Pilot-294
Senior Member
So last weekend I bought myself a new rc radio and a plane to boot (even tho the wife wanted to kill me haha) and I thought I did well. I got a brand new dx6i with the 2 extra micro receivers special and an older balsa sopwith pup model, long story short the guy built it, passed away, and never got to fly it. It was a couple years old so I bought a new battery, threw in the micro parkflyer rx included with my new tx and I flew it. But I fried the motor, the guy who built it was the late owner of the hobby shop so I thought his setup would be good so being new to setting up an electric plane I looked at what I had going on for guts;
This is what I found, he ran a 1320 mah battery and I got a 1300 park zone equivalent. He had what seemed to be an undersized 250-300 motor (I'm guessing 250) and the esc was the most amazing find, it's a 40amp e-flite pro brushless esc. The one I looked at was worth 75 bucks! Half what I paid for the plane.
And this is my question, what the heck size motor do I get to run the bird or will I need the esc too? I thought about a 400 size motor from heads up rc but I'm not sure what to get and I'm worried it won't fit on my current mount since I'm in an army base for USAF tech schooling and have no tools.
My other issue is I don't want any motor too big to kill the scale flying features of the plane and or damage the plane as it looks and flies very well and very scale and I like it that way. I also would like to keep the esc I have in it if possible as long as it definitely won't kill another motor.
Also the plane is made by green model rc and I can't find any info on it do I anyone has any offhand info without digging too hard I would apreciate it since the plans are pretty terrible , it was an ARF kit before I got it
Lastly a few specs on the actual plane, it's about a 35-40 inch wing and weighs about 16-20 ounces, not sure how accurate that is but I hope it's close enough
This is what I found, he ran a 1320 mah battery and I got a 1300 park zone equivalent. He had what seemed to be an undersized 250-300 motor (I'm guessing 250) and the esc was the most amazing find, it's a 40amp e-flite pro brushless esc. The one I looked at was worth 75 bucks! Half what I paid for the plane.
And this is my question, what the heck size motor do I get to run the bird or will I need the esc too? I thought about a 400 size motor from heads up rc but I'm not sure what to get and I'm worried it won't fit on my current mount since I'm in an army base for USAF tech schooling and have no tools.
My other issue is I don't want any motor too big to kill the scale flying features of the plane and or damage the plane as it looks and flies very well and very scale and I like it that way. I also would like to keep the esc I have in it if possible as long as it definitely won't kill another motor.
Also the plane is made by green model rc and I can't find any info on it do I anyone has any offhand info without digging too hard I would apreciate it since the plans are pretty terrible , it was an ARF kit before I got it
Lastly a few specs on the actual plane, it's about a 35-40 inch wing and weighs about 16-20 ounces, not sure how accurate that is but I hope it's close enough
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